Again, I don’t see it. Skyscrapers going up all around me and tall ones too. On 57th St alone there are several 1,000+ foot towers either just built or under construction. My Metro North train is increasingly crowded with working people in business suits. So all those on this thread pumping their fists in delight that NYC is crumbling are falling for fake news.
I detest DeBlasio and his policies like everyone else here and believe that any mayor making his town a sanctuary city for illegal immigration belongs in jail. Maybe NYC gets a bette mayor this year. But I’m not seeing “white flight” from NYC. My company is opening up a third NYC office in the Industry City area of Brooklyn and the growth and gentrification of that area over the past few years has been astonishing.
15 years ago countless lives were saved by the high vacancy rate in the World Trade Center; the replacement has less space because the demand was already falling.
My area to the west isn’t losing population; it is losing AMERICAN population. The county north of me recently added a third language to government business (ballots and such): Korean. As for NYC, I’ve always thought it was filled with foreigners (not a criticism, just a fact); a friend that works there described how he could tell they were filming a movie there: Too many whites (the extras) milling about.
Well, Upstate looks like a ghost town.
The most blatant admission of what was happening in the NYC area came out a couple of years ago when the project for a third tunnel under the Hudson River was scrapped (due to lack of demand); the supporters, primarily interested in decades of workfare jobs associated with the project, pointed out that people might need it for not work, but to SEE A BROADWAY SHOW.